Dialogue

 1 Intro|          would in like manner oppose men and all other animals to
 2 Intro|          birds in juxtaposition with men, and the king side by side
 3 Intro|             originally to implant in men’s minds a sense of truth
 4 Intro|             true herdsman or king of men. But before we can rightly
 5 Intro|           there is one management of men, and another of beasts.’
 6 Intro|          your division, you spoke of men and other animals as two
 7 Intro|           the two remaining species. Men and birds are both bipeds,
 8 Intro|         Cronos, and of the earthborn men? The origin of these and
 9 Intro|               is most destructive to men and animals. At the beginning
10 Intro|              and fineness; the young men grew softer and smaller,
11 Intro|              origin of the earthborn men.~‘And is this cycle, of
12 Intro|               They were shepherds of men and animals, each of them
13 Intro|       sufficiency of all things, and men were born out of the earth,
14 Intro|             time, when the earthborn men had all passed away, the
15 Intro|              infants grew into young men, and the young men became
16 Intro|             young men, and the young men became greyheaded; no longer
17 Intro| self-nourished. At first the case of men was very helpless and pitiable;
18 Intro|          standard. Many accomplished men say that the art of measurement
19 Intro|            better calculated to make men dialecticians.~And now let
20 Intro|             view in various forms of men and animals and other monsters
21 Intro|             seen, no great number of men, whether poor or rich, can
22 Intro|             true government is, when men do nothing contrary to their
23 Intro|            government exist, because men despair of the true king
24 Intro|              mind, the characters of men. The two classes both have
25 Intro|          east, and of the earth-born men; but he has never heard
26 Intro|            in the Timaeus, the first men gave of the names of the
27 Intro|         unnoticed:—(1) the primitive men are supposed to be created
28 Intro|             innocence, or that which men live at present, is the
29 Intro|             In all ages of the world men have dreamed of a state
30 Intro|             comparative happiness of men in this and in a former
31 Intro|           like the physician, may do men good against their will (
32 Intro|        infancy of political science, men naturally ask whether the
33 Intro|            Admitting that a few wise men are likely to be better
34 Intro|            about the duty of leaving men to themselves, which is
35 Intro|             which the law makes with men, that they shall be protected
36 Intro|           honesty, but that it makes men act in the same way, and
37 Intro|             commerce begins to grow, men make themselves customs
38 Intro|     politicians, in various forms of men and animals, appearing,
39 State|         think so.~STRANGER: And when men have anything to do in common,
40 State|              to be one management of men and another of beasts.~STRANGER:
41 State|        STRANGER: O Socrates, best of men, you are imposing upon me
42 State|             i.e. that of bipeds into men and birds. Others however
43 State|           Did you ever hear that the men of former times were earth-born,
44 State|          women and children; for all men rose again from the earth,
45 State|           intercourse, not only with men, but with the brute creation,
46 State|      thousand times happier than the men of our own day. Or, again,
47 State|          causes of the change, about men there is not much, and that
48 State|           was saying, had now failed men, and they had to order their
49 State|            that there was no care of men in the case of the politician,
50 State|             society and to rule over men in general.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
51 State|      difference between good and bad men?~YOUNG SOCRATES: Plainly.~
52 State|          There are many accomplished men, Socrates, who say, believing
53 State|       commerce.~STRANGER: But surely men whom we see acting as hirelings
54 State|          interpreters of the gods to men.~YOUNG SOCRATES: True.~STRANGER:
55 State|             give the gods gifts from men in the form of sacrifices
56 State|            the absence of law, which men now-a-days apply to them;
57 State|              multitude rule over the men of property with their consent
58 State|              in a city of a thousand men, there would be a hundred,
59 State|             best. The differences of men and actions, and the endless
60 State|            in other cities, at which men compete in running, wrestling,
61 State|             unjust, to the tribes of men who flock together in their
62 State|          individual or any number of men, having fixed laws, in acting
63 State|              that no great number of men are able to acquire a knowledge
64 State|             and democracies,—because men are offended at the one
65 State|             States what God is among men.~YOUNG SOCRATES: You are
66 State|             royal art, and persuades men to do justice, and assists
67 State|           but decide the dealings of men with one another to be just
68 State|           into deciding the suits of men with one another contrary
69 State|          enquiry, we shall find that men who have these different
70 State|          manner of behaving with all men at home, and they are equally
71 State|             and bring up their young men to be like themselves; they
72 State|          combination of good and bad men, if this can be avoided;
73 State|             not permit them to train men in what will produce characters